Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-349) and index

Mobsters vs. outlaws -- Chicago's bootlegging gangs and its five years of "beer wars" -- Crime chronology--1919-1929 -- The depression desperadoes -- The old cops 'n' robbers vs. the new FBI: the rise and fall of the last great outlaw band -- The depression-era crime chronology--1930-1939 -- Crime control--1919-1940 -- The Chicago Crime Commission and its gangland body count

Discusses how the development of new technologies helped improve crime control during Prohibition and the Depression, and discusses how the police had to deal with problems they had never encountered, including interstate criminals, powerful gangsters, machine guns, cars, and organized crime

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